For first time printing do people recommend starting with PLA get to grips with that then move on to playing with ABS and then other materials?

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PLA every time as it is cheap and generally produces good models for artistic or engineering projects. It's limitations are few other than a low glass temperature. I do not use ABS as it has too many issues such as warp and toxic emissions and there are better, if more expensive, filaments such as NGen and Edge and the specials such as XT-CF20, wood fill and metal fill. But, most of my general printing uses PLA.